Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-15
RANDOM NOTES.
The Many Social Advantages Of the Higher
Education Of Women.
ADULT WEEK IN WHEELING SOCIETY.
A Delightful Golden Wedding Reception at
the Mt. Belleview, Thursday.
EVENTS FOR The COMING WEEK.

II like the ladies very much
And 50 | thought, she ssid,
But iuly feared the name OF one
Was running in his head
She laughed out then this paradox.
As If in mcrrSt fun
I'd rather You would like them all,
Than Ike a single one
But me, - She added in her thought
To suy il wouldn't do;
So, lcHping past her modest mouth,
out OF her eyes II New.
-CpUiptiC Fish Bats IN Century.
There is nothing in the curious, out-of-
the-way bits OF historical record-the
fragments OF personal diaries. wills, in
ventories, bills, memoranda and odd legal
documents which in many cases W their
preservation to accident or carelesSness-
which separates the past OF a century or
two 9 from the most enlightened thought
of to-day as completely rs their reveal
tons ofthe general condition Of opinion in
regard to the mental and moral disabilities
of women.
The mental attitude of q man toward
women in the abstract is to-day Il pretty
accurate measure of his native intelligence,
his culture, and his social opportunities,
in the best sense of the phrase. II lie thinks
with the youthful Tennys1n, of the earlier
Locksley Hall verses, that woman Is the
lesser man." q cOrollary, aS it were, to the
great original proposition, and not another
and totally different problem, he allows it
to be inferred that his life has never
brought him in contact with the best wo-
men, or if it has, that he has been too mar
row-mindcd or too uncultiyated to under
stand or appreciate them.
No one who reads periodical literature Is
unfamiliar with the results of the opening
of the higher educational opportunities Ia
women, and very few who read Intelligent
ly believe that these results foreshadow Il
determination of women in their relation
rs wives and mothers.
The refining influence of high thinking
and hard study is acknowledged i'll the
case o fmen, but there is 4 general impulse
to deny it in the case of women.
Girls who are sent to college 90 in most
cases over the ashes of all their parents
SOClIl HOlCS iOI thtil, dUb It'iNC DIh'ii
them the conviction that they will return
"strong.minded." untemininc, hard and
opinionated. They are usually sent to
gain the means of becoming ~self-suppOrt-
ing, and rarely because their parents
have any appreciation Of the immense
benefit which the mind and the manners
rain from advanced education, or Of the
ratification it furnishes against the cnnui
and the belittling tendencies of many
wOmen's lives.
For women who have Il career la
view, the advantages of II university train
ing are now freely acknowledged. For
those who wish to cultivate themselves in
every possible way for no other purpose
than the pleasures of self-develop-
ment, there is still very little pop
ular approval or encouragement. When
the perception finally dawns upon the
world that women are better wives, moth
ers, friends, social leaders and dispensers
of charity for having had every faculty
and talent carefully cultivated, it will then
he time to revert to those old humiliating
chronicles of misapprchcnsion and oppres'
sion and boast of the progress that civil
ZatiOn has made so plain.